<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44000]]></link><description><![CDATA[What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resolve to make each day the very best and don't let anyone get in your way. If they do, step ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resolve to make each day the very best and don't let anyone get in your way. If they do, step on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cleveland County was lucky through that whole period. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cleveland County was lucky through that whole period.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/87]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/87</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind:  Invisible to mortal eyes they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind:  Invisible to mortal eyes they go,   And mark our actions, good or bad, below:    The immortal spies with watchful care preside,     And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide:      They can reward with glory or with gold,       A power they by Divine permission hold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19426]]></link><description><![CDATA[It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the good news we have been waiting for! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34969]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the good news we have been waiting for!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He sat among his bags, and, with a look Which hell might be ashamed of, drove the poor  Away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42743]]></link><description><![CDATA[He sat among his bags, and, with a look Which hell might be ashamed of, drove the poor  Away unalmed; and midst abundance died--   Sorest of evils!--died of utter want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day is a little life: and our whole life is but a day repeated, whence it is that old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day is a little life: and our whole life is but a day repeated, whence it is that old Jacob numbers his life by days; and Moses desires to be taught this point of holy arithmetic, to number not his years but his days. [And so, those] that dare lose a day, are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63236]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Within the midnight of her hair, Half-hidden in its deepest deeps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Within the midnight of her hair, Half-hidden in its deepest deeps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people think that meditation takes time away from physicalaccomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people,however, find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people think that meditation takes time away from physicalaccomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people,however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2454]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, "What if?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46312]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The priest is the personification of falsehood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15073]]></link><description><![CDATA[The priest is the personification of falsehood]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63027]]></link><description><![CDATA[For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11623]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence is as American as cherry pie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence is as American as cherry pie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rock to roses;  It slipped from politics ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58619]]></link><description><![CDATA[His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rock to roses;  It slipped from politics to puns;   It passed from Mahomet to Moses;    Beginning with the laws that keep     The planets in the radiant courses,      And ending with some precept deep       For dressing eels or shoeing horses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies?  Heav'n still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies?  Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys,   And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was on drugs and alcohol, and he threatened me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34046]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was on drugs and alcohol, and he threatened me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18626]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be faithful than famous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15049]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be faithful than famous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do want your big guns for the play-offs. We'll just have to knuckle down and work as a unit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32588]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do want your big guns for the play-offs. We'll just have to knuckle down and work as a unit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad monetary and fiscal policy, often designed by the IMF, is the real cause of global problems. The only explanation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad monetary and fiscal policy, often designed by the IMF, is the real cause of global problems. The only explanation for why government leaders continue to follow these policies is that by blaming markets, they avoid blaming themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There aren't any embarrassing questions -- only embarrassing answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23364]]></link><description><![CDATA[There aren't any embarrassing questions -- only embarrassing answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41519]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Straining breaks the bow, and relaxation relieves the mind. [Lat., Arcum intensio frangit, animum remissio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Straining breaks the bow, and relaxation relieves the mind. [Lat., Arcum intensio frangit, animum remissio.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[after being married to Bill for more than 50 years, I don't really know where to start. I miss him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33032]]></link><description><![CDATA[after being married to Bill for more than 50 years, I don't really know where to start. I miss him all the time...I was not with him that night, because I felt like I was coming down with the flu.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. Thanks to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46075]]></link><description><![CDATA[... perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. Thanks to Maria Marquis -Pearl S. Buck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All labours draw hame at even, And can to others say,  "Thanks to the gracious God of heaven,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58262]]></link><description><![CDATA[All labours draw hame at even, And can to others say,  "Thanks to the gracious God of heaven,   Whilk sent this summer day."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loyalty ... is a realization that America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loyalty ... is a realization that America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there are many counsellors there is safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there are many counsellors there is safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we take that money we can take it and build better neighborhoods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41007]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we take that money we can take it and build better neighborhoods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire to belong is partly a desire to lose oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire to belong is partly a desire to lose oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goal is to create a new use for the manure that's surrounding the town ? as a biofuel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33365]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goal is to create a new use for the manure that's surrounding the town ? as a biofuel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41502]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66282]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66282</guid></item></channel></rss>